Cloudimage reviews

Cloud Image offers optimisation in at least 3 distinct ways with one very simple integration:
- Image optimisation and compression.
- Image scaling and custom size delivery.
- CDN Localised delivery.

CI offers a selection of premade integrations and plugins to support a wide range of existing solutions. The full list is pretty extensive but, we use the VUE one.
We even got a custom feature implemented in house, and the CI team loved it so much, that they bought it back into thier own codebase.

CloudImage ticks all the boxes, and in my opinion is the market leader in amongst an admittedly sparse market.

All issues we have encountered have been small and been resolved swiftly by our contact at CI

CI, while being priced similarly to market competitors, is expensive.

It is something that a business could roll thier own version of with the right amount of time and capex and make fair savings over CI's offering.

One gripe of mine would be that CI doesnt appear to use closest match image sizing between different requested sizes (lets say in 100px tranches) and instead renders a new pixel perfect version of the original for every new with requested. This inflates cache size somewhat (and potentially traffic too if the same image is used in multuple places), though would love to be corrected on this!

I like Cloudimage because it seamlessly optimises and delivers images in real time, boosting my website’s performance with fast load times, responsive design, and effortless transformations, all while reducing bandwidth and ensuring an excellent user experience.

Cloudimage is incredibly simple to implement and works out-of-the-box, requiring minimal setup. With just a few URL modifications, you can start optimising and delivering images instantly, making it a hassle-free solution for improving website performance.

Cloudimage's documentation initially didn’t fully showcase the software's true power, but I’ve noticed significant improvements in recent months. It's now better structured, providing clearer and more practical guidance, making it much easier to tap into the full potential of the software.